Item #16 on the afternoon City Council agenda Tuesday March 25 is a toothless meaningless response to real demands that protection against the "Patriot Act" be strengthened--after Mayor Kennedy gutted a better resolution back in November 2002.

The Bay Area Radical Health Collective presents a day-long first aid training for activists.

Monday, May 31
10:00am to 5:00PM
St. Boniface Church in San Francisco

SANTA CRUZIANS interested in attending the training: please contact beemedic2002 (at) yahoo.com to arrange carpooling.

Bill Clinton has been blamed by his detractors for just about everything from curdled milk to genetic mutations. But might there be a more recent president whose own record of misdeeds puts Clinton's to shame? Read the following for why it just may be time for Clinton critics to quit caterwauling.

On air interview with author and activist Starhawk. This interview was recorded on Indynewswire (a program on Free Radio Santa Cruz airing Mondays from 1:00 - 3:00 PM)

Starhawk discusses the June 3 - 9 Reclaim The Commons mobilizations being planed in San Francisco during the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization meeting.

(25 minutes / 5.8 megabytes)

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solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution

Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299, representing about 17,000 patient care, custodial & food service workers employed by the University of California, rallied last Thursday at the nine campuses statewide, in a preemptive move to secure better pay and advancement opportunities in their upcoming contract negotiations. WINS reporter Vinny Lombardo attended a lunchtime rally at the UC Santa Cruz campus and has the story. (4:12)

*Please credit Workers Independent News Service if this story is used*

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...Government Oversight is Weak or Nonexistent~Interview with Michael Scherer, Washington correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

The goat mowers are still chomping on the hillsides around santa cruz high.

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